Word: properly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proper Names. In Topeka, Kans., Ralph Surpluss was chosen as an alternate juror. In Vancouver, B.C., police pressed fighting and swearing charges against Jack Goody...
...back at least to Shakespeare (in King Lear). Owen Wister sounded it more discreetly in The Virginian (1902), where it was cloaked as "son-of-a -." The Virginian's ringing retort was well remembered: "When you call me that, smile." The only question was: Was it quite the proper phrase for the President to use in public, with or without smiling...
...trial proper, he added, would begin forthwith...
Though the auditorium was already filled when he walked on stage, Mr. Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, said that his main purpose was not to introduce the Sitwells as much as to talk until all latecomers had been seated. And to put the audience in the proper frame of mind for hearing poetry read, he said...
Tonight's meeting is the second in the current series of eight career conferences sponsored by the Office of Student Placement. The first conference, held last week, was devoted to a discussion of the proper educational preparation for careers in business...